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JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH

July 3, 2025 By Leave a Comment

JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH

Right at the beginning of JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH there is a hint that this is a break from the increasingly lackluster sequels to which we have been subjected. It is the moment when we see that Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), the upbeat mercenary of the piece, is recruiting paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) for… Read More »

Tagged With: equatorial Atlantic, evil Big Pharma. ceratopsid, interesting nerd, Mosasaur, prehistoric, sensible footwear, sequel, upbeat mercenary

DANGEROUS ANIMALS

June 6, 2025 By Leave a Comment

DANGEROUS ANIMALS

There’s something refreshing about the sharks featured in DANGEROUS ANIMALS >not< being the villains of the piece. Instead, they are presented on their own terms as majestic creatures of the deep who would really, really rather not deal with humans in any way shape or form, and that includes lunch. Instead, we have a human… Read More »

Tagged With: Australia, foster care, meet cute, shark-driven evolution, sharks, surfing, swimming with sharks, videocassette

THE KARATE KID: LEGENDS

May 28, 2025 By Leave a Comment

THE KARATE KID: LEGENDS

There are many montages in THE KARATE KID: LEGENDS. So many montages. Training montages. Hanging out montages. More training montages. Montages of flashbacks with narration. Montages of montages of flashbacks. As irksome as it is, it has the virtue of symbolizing the raison-d’etre of this sequel to a sequel to a reboot of a remake.… Read More »

Tagged With: boxing, high school, karate, karate tournament, kung fu, nerd in a cardigan, New York City, pizza, sequel, tutor, wax-on wax-off

GLADIATOR II

December 21, 2024 By Leave a Comment

GLADIATOR II

GLADIATOR II has all the spectacle and pageantry (can you say cast of AI thousands?) of its predecessor, and certainly the same amount of gruesome deaths as only Ancient Rome could devise them, but it is a lesser thing story-wise. Not a bad film, but one that comes down firmly on the side of that… Read More »

Tagged With: ancient Rome, gladiator, naval battle, printing press, sequel, sharks in the Colosseum, sibilant "s"

HERETIC

December 21, 2024 By Leave a Comment

HERETIC

HERETIC manages to be terrifying because of the very civility each of the characters shows during the slow build-up to the, ahem, crux of the film. This fable for our times is a cleverly disguised dialectic not just on faith, but on the very human need to believe in something in the face of proof,… Read More »

Tagged With: belief, blueberry pie, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, faith, faith in things unseen, fanatacism, Mormon, obsession, religion

THE APPRENTICE

November 4, 2024 By Leave a Comment

THE APPRENTICE

THE APPRENTICE takes as its focus the relationship between Roy Cohn and the young and hungry Donald Trump of the 1970s. This would be the callow Trump who was stifled by the long shadow cast by his father, Fred (Martin Donovan), and the utter cluelessness about how to play an all too easily rigged system… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, blackmail, emotionally crippled, fascism, greed, New York City, politics

SPEAK NO EVIL

September 13, 2024 By Leave a Comment

SPEAK NO EVIL

First, we must speak of trailers that give too much away, something that dampened the exquisite terror of SPEAK NO EVIL for me. Its trailer deprives those who see it of the joy in discovering the twists and turns the story uses in order to turn the film into something other than what we expect… Read More »

Tagged With: child abuse, Generational trauma, remote country house, speech impediment

DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE

July 26, 2024 By Leave a Comment

DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE

It is a fine line to walk, loving a pop culture phenomenon with all your being, yet being able to make mad sport of it at the same time. Thus is DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, the ultimate fanboy and fangirl experience of the Marvel Universe that manages to be both wickedly funny and curiously reverent. Deadpool… Read More »

Tagged With: anarchic whimsey, call-outs, MCU, North Dakota, redemption, sequel, superhero, testy blind roommate, wankerdom, whiff of necrophilia

LONGLEGS

July 9, 2024 By Leave a Comment

LONGLEGS

With LONGLEGS, writer/director Oz Perkins has created an original tale of horror set in the 1990s while staying true to familiar tropes. There’s an unhinged suspect, a series of family slaughters that don’t ring true to a murder/suicide scenario, and a neophyte FBI agent at the center of the case in ways she didn’t see… Read More »

Tagged With: cabin in the woods, FBI, horror, isolation, looming landscape, murder-suicide, serial killer

IF

May 19, 2024 By Leave a Comment

IF

  Click here for the flashback interview with John Krasinski for THE HOLLARS. John Krasinski’s great strength as a filmmaker is that he can capture the full spectrum of emotions, the fleeting bit of comfort in remembering a loved one who has died while the grief is still raw, or the poignant joy of remembering… Read More »

Tagged With: Brooklyn, Coney Island, giant bee in a tutu, imaginary friends, sick father

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